page_title: Climate of Cebu
section_title: Typhoons
hierarchical_section_title: Climate of Cebu / Typhoons
caption_attribution_description: Super Typhoon Mike at peak intensity on November 11 at 2221 UTC. This image was produced from data from NOAA-10, provided by NOAA.
context_page_description: The Climate of Cebu is a tropical wet and dry climate. There are two seasons in Cebu - the wet season and the dry season. Cebu has three different climates, based on the distribution of rainfall, with the most prevalent ones being Am and Af and a very minor area of Aw. Based on temperature, the warmest months of the year are March through October; the winter monsoon brings cooler air from November to February. May is the warmest month, and January, the coolest.
  All typically tropical temperature at sea level or low-elevation have a temperature range over the year is less than three degrees Celsius, and annual rainfall exceeds 1,500 millimetres.
context_section_description: The province of Cebu normally gets typhoons once a year or none. The typhoons that hit Cebu in recent times were category 5 Typhoon Ruping (1990), Typhoon Utor (2006), Typhoon Hagibis (2007), Typhoon Fengshen (2008), Typhoon Bopha (2012) and Typhoon Amy.
  In November 2013, a powerful typhoon - Typhoon Haiyan – struck the province as a category 5 super typhoon. Northern towns of Cebu province and Bantayan Island were the worst hit.
caption: Typhoon Mike
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